As a millennial, I grew up with rooms being lit by 1-3 relatively dim lampshaded 40-60w incandescent bulbs at night. As a result that’s what feels comfortable and relaxing to me as an adult. Rooms at home being brightly lit at night feels grating and reminiscent of a grocery store or hospital or something.
Look into getting warm white lights. For some reason cool white lights are super common while I do think most people at home would actually prefer warm white.
Things can be bright and cozy.
Why not? Is it not better for lights to be overhead and not directly in your field of view?
Indirect/shaded lamps that diffuse the light over a larger area and reduce its intensity are preferable.
Because screens are not bright enough to use outside or in well-lit environments.
If E-ink or similar technology manages to get a bit better refresh rates, it's going to change building architecture in the entire industrialized world.
An ergonomic screen arrangement, with the display perpendicular to the desk and height-aligned with your horizontal line of sight should make it basically impossible for an overhead indoor light to interfere with your view.
> If E-ink or similar technology manages to get a bit better refresh rates, it's going to change building architecture in the entire industrialized world.
Fingers crossed. I remember yearning for the breakout of transflective displays that never happened.
The sun is tyrannical where I live, so with current display technology, offices are indeed built somewhat like caves.
It's always been strange to me how many people without a medical reason for doing so want to sit in dark rooms like cave trolls, but there we are.
At least now operating systems all have switchable modes that get reported to the browser. The browser can/should adapt to whatever setting the OS reports.
But UI design is, with a few islands of rationality in history from people like Paul Fitts, mostly a cascade of poorly applied vibes and fads. First people say that contrast is bad, so then people don't use enough contrast. Then people say that brightness is bad, so people don't use enough brightness. Then people realize why contrast and brightness were important all along and the circle of life continues.